TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mollenkopf,John Hull
TI  - A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics 
SN  - 9780691228204
U1  - 320.9747/1 20
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - AIDS epidemic
KW  - American Express
KW  - Bear Stearns
KW  - Bedford-Stuyvesant
KW  - Bronx
KW  - Canarsie
KW  - Charter Revision Commission
KW  - Citizens Budget Commission
KW  - Dominicans
KW  - East Harlem
KW  - Fire Department
KW  - Harlem
KW  - Helmsley Palace
KW  - Jamaicans
KW  - Latinos
KW  - accommodation
KW  - accounting firms
KW  - advertising agencies
KW  - antipoverty programs
KW  - antiwar movement
KW  - appointments
KW  - baby boom professionals
KW  - back-office operations
KW  - black mayors
KW  - blue-collar workers
KW  - building codes
KW  - campaign financing
KW  - campaign spending
KW  - central business districts
KW  - citizenship
KW  - community corporations
KW  - conservatives
KW  - death penalty
KW  - debt or borrowing
KW  - deindustrialization
KW  - development
KW  - economic competitiveness
KW  - education
KW  - electoral exclusion theory
KW  - ethnic competition
KW  - feminists
KW  - foundations
KW  - freight transport
KW  - garment industry
KW  - gentrification
KW  - governing coalition
KW  - homeless
KW  - imperatives
KW  - inequalities
KW  - intergovernmental transfers
KW  - judicial appointments
KW  - labor costs
KW  - labor force participation
KW  - land-use regulation
KW  - law firms and lawyers
KW  - loft-manufacturing areas
KW  - machine politics
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A PHOENIX IN THE ASHES --; One Introduction --; Two How to Study Urban Political Power --; Three The Postindustrial Transformation of New York City --; Four The Rules of the Game in New York City Politics --; Five Forging the Koch Coalition --; Six The Exercise of Power - Who Got What and Why --; Seven The Fall of the Koch Coalition --; Eight The Koch Era in Perspective --; Afterword --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven, deal-oriented, economic boom of the Reagan era. Exploring the interplay between social structural change and political power during this period, John Mollenkopf asks why a city with a large minority population and a long tradition of liberalism elected a conservative mayor who promoted real-estate development and belittled minority activists. Through a careful analysis of voting patterns, political strategies of various interest groups, and policy trends, he explains how Mayor Edward Koch created a powerful political coalition and why it ultimately failed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691228204?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228204
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